Clu Gulager (born November 16, 1928) is an American television and film actor. He is particularly noted for appearing in the 1985 horror movie as the protagonist Burt in The Return of the Living Dead, The Hidden, The Offspring (aka From a Whisper to a Scream) and as Bartender in Feast.
Gulager was born William Martin Gulager in Holdenville, Oklahoma, the son of John Gulager, a cowboy entertainer. His first cousin was Will Rogers (through his pate...
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Clu Gulager (born November 16, 1928) is an American television and film actor. He is particularly noted for appearing in the 1985 horror movie as the protagonist Burt in The Return of the Living Dead, The Hidden, The Offspring (aka From a Whisper to a Scream) and as Bartender in Feast.
Gulager was born William Martin Gulager in Holdenville, Oklahoma, the son of John Gulager, a cowboy entertainer. His first cousin was Will Rogers (through his paternal grandmother). Gulager served in the United States Marine Corps from 1946 to 1948. He has Cherokee Native American ancestry. His nickname was given to him by his father for the clu-clu birds that were nesting at the Gulager home at the time Clu was born.
In the spring of 1959, Gulager appeared as Tommy Pavlock in the episode "The Immigrant" of NBC's The Lawless Years, a 1920s crime drama. In the fall of 1959, he appeared in the episode "The Temple of the Swinging Doll" of NBC's short-lived espionage drama, Five Fingers, starring David...
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